Rotobox has become one of my many favorite vinyl toy designers.  Not too long ago, I posted about their Real Robots: Devastor set.  The latest one off project takes the Ganmetall Celsius series and pays homage to the Beatles.  As you can see above each figure even comes with their own signature instrument.  The Ganmetall Celsius Tribute to the Beatles 4 figure set is an edition of 1.  So if you’re both a die hard fan of the Beatles and vinyl figures, email Rotobox ASAP at info@rotoboxvinylanatomica.com.

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The Twelves Essential Mix

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Track listing:

Fever Ray – Seven (The Twelves Remix)
The Rapture – Sister Saviour (DFA dub)
Phoenix – Fences (accapella)
Cerrone – Look for Love
Kraftwerk – Music Non Stop (vocoder)
Daft Punk – Da Funk
Glass Candy – Last Night I Met a Costume
LCD Soundsystem – Nike Run (excerpt)
Yelle – Ce Jeu (The Twelves Remix)
Chemical Brothers – Music-Response
Mr. Oizo – Two Takes It
D Train – You’re the One for Me
Metric – Help I’m Alive (The Twelves Remix)
Roger Sanchez – Computabank
Chilly – For Your Love
Dynasty – I Don’t Wanna be a Freak
Radiohead – Reckoner (The Twelves Remix)
Siriusmo – Last Dear
Empire of the Sun – Walking on a Dream (accapella)
Zeigeist – Humanitarianism (The Twelves Remix)
Eddie Tour – Up the Glitter
Gaz Nevada – IC Love Affair
Phoenix – Lisztomania (accapella)
Groove Armada – Drop The Tough (The Twelves Remix)
Methusalem – Robotism
Gossip – Standind in the Way of Control (accapella)
Chromatics – I Want Your Love (The Twelves Remix)
Laid Back – White Horse
Metronomy – Radio Ladio
Sparks – Tryouts for the Human Race
M.I.A. – Boyz (The Twelves Remix)
Daft Punk – Voyager
Indeep – Last Night a DJ Saved my Life (accapella)
The Virgins – Rich Girls (The Twelves Remix)
Fleetwood Mac – Dreams (The Twelves Remix)
In Flagranti – Just Gazing
Alan Parsons Project – Be Like You (The Twelves Remix)
B.W.H. – Stop
Chemical Brothers – Block Rockin’ Beats
Karen O & The Kids – All is Love (The Twelves Remix)
Fleet Foxes – Mykonos (The Twelves Remix)
Patrick Alavi – Power
Michael Jackson – Thriller (Instrumental)
Justice – Stress (siren)
Kano – Ahjia
Mr. Oizo – Gay Dentists
Donna Summer – I Feel Love
Cerrone – Give Me Love
Mr. Oizo – Hun
Chic – Everybody Dance
Coldcut – Timber
Basement Jaxx – Rendez-Vous
Les Rhythmes Digitales – From Disco to Disco
Alex Gopher – Motorcycle
Nirvana – All Apologies (The Twelves Remix)
Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express
The Black Kids – I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (The Twelves Remix)
The Rapture – House of Jealous Lovers
Scenario Rock – Skitzo Dancer (Justice Remix)
Daft Punk – Aerodynamic
Boyz Noize – Arcade Robot
Basement Jaxx – Good Luck (accapella)
The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby (The Twelves Remix)
The Twelves – Nightvision (Daft Punk)
La Roux – In For The Kill (The Twelves Remix)

Anami Vice is a local Vancouver hip hop, solo artist with a bright future. The Ne Wfut Ure EP is his official debut that came out a few months back. It’s a collection of eight songs that he’s been brewing up for a few years now. He’s also working on his second album, due at the end the summer. I had the chance to chat with him about his days of rapping in his buddy’s basement to recording albums showcasing his beats and lyrics. Be sure to check out some of his tracks on his myspace (http://www.myspace.com/anamivice) page.

Killahbeez: So how did you get started? What’s your background?

Anami Vice: I’ve always liked hip hop. When I was 15 my buddy told me we were going to a friend’s house to rap. I was pretty resistant to the idea because I thought it was silly. I had never tried it before. So we went over to my buddy’s house and I guess he had just bought new turn tables and it had a sampler on it so we could loop tracks. There were five us and we all wrote 16 bars each. It turns out I was alright at it. Then we formed a group and we sporadically recorded and performed for ten years after that but we never did anything serious with it.

KB: Now you’re solo?

AV: Yeah. Over the years we formed different groups with the crew. Two of us would go off and do some songs together. Five of us would do the same. There’s a lot of recorded material but none of it saw the light of day, probably because we never thought it was good enough. There are a couple of guys who started out with us who are pretty serious into it now. A guy name Jeff Spec, he was at that first session and then split off from the group and worked on it seriously and now he has quite a few releases. But I never got there.

KB: Is anyone else in your family musically inclined?

AV: After getting into music I discovered that a couple of my uncles on my mother’s side do a weekly thing in a pub somewhere in Holland where they play cover songs, old Dutch folk tunes. As far as anyone else doing it seriously, that’s the only thing I’ve heard.

KB: What’s your background?

AV: My mother is Dutch and my father is Indian.

KB: Does your background influence any of your music?

AV: I don’t think so. I think I was heavily influenced by hip hop. I don’t think any of those sounds really found their way into my music. Not to say that they won’t in the future. For awhile Indian classical music and Indian pop was being sampled heavily in hip hop and I attempted that a few times over the years but nothing on my album has anything like that. I haven’t consciously made an effort to do that. Maybe in the future.

KB: How would you describe your music?

AV: I think I try to be as honest as I can with the lyrics. I’m not predisposed to using any particular type of beats. I like stuff that makes you want to nod your head. I’ve noticed that gangster rap sounds really good, but I don’t have anything gangster to say.

KB: Who are your musical inspirations? Who got you into hip hop?

AV: I remember the first two rap tapes I had were Young MC and Tone Loc. I think my major influences now, the people I listen to when I’m feeling uninspired, are Pharoahe Monch, Jay-Z, LP, and I really like Juelz Santana. The latest thing I bought is the new K’NAAN album. I didn’t like the first one but I really like the new one. It’s really cool. I thought it was going to be all one style but it’s really versatile.

KB: Do other music genres inspire you?

AV: Yeah for sure. I think lyrically a lot more than hip hop in terms of content. I grew up listening to my dad’s records like Paul Simon and the Beatles. My lyrics are really cryptic but if you listen carefully you’ll hear homage to Paul Simon here or there or an illusion to a Beatles lyric or something like that. I love listening to Lennon and his silly play on words.

KB: What’s your writing process like?

AV: It’s pretty standard. I sit down at the computer and I have a whole bank of samples like a keyboard line that I’ve been playing and I’ll make a beat and the beat will inspire me in some way to write something and then I go ahead and write to the beat. It’s usually the beat first and then I write the lyrics and then I try to record as quickly as possible, I find a get better result if I do that. I like to get in and put the song down while the beat is still moving me.

I’m trying to think of new stuff all the time, maybe too much. I think that like most artists, I never like the last stuff I did; I’m always looking forward to the new stuff. I put out that last album last December and I’ve already stopped dealing with it and am now actively writing a new album. I’ve already recorded half of the new album.

KB: What’s your cover art about?

AV: My dad’s a painter. I don’t actually know what it looks like on the cover but it’s a really small detail of a charcoal that he did. He did a whole series of charcoals after he came back from a trip to Mexico. It’s a small detail of half of the head of a figure that was on one of those charcoals.

My buddies and I laugh about that album cover because it looks like a world music album cover.

KB: What else do you do on the side?

AV: I enjoy writing. I don’t know if I’m any good at it but I really enjoy doing it. I’ve written some slam poetry that I’ve never actually slammed but the process is enjoyable.

KB: Would you ever consider publishing your writing?

AV: I’ve thought about it many times but I don’t know if I’m any good.

KB: Yeah but that’s a fear that a lot of artists have. You have to be confident but at the same time art is so subjective that no matter how great you think your work is, there will always be someone ready to knock you down.

AV: I think I’m most worried of myself judging me. I think with hip hop I’m pretty sure I’m not bad, but with other stuff, I’m not so sure, I might suck. I worry about that. I don’t worry about other people judging me; I think maybe I can handle that. I worry about giving myself a hard time and discovering that I actually suck.

KB: Well we’re always our worst critics. We might think something sucks but other people love it and what we love other people will think sucks.

AV: That’s funny because my least favourite track on the album I’ve been told, by the majority of people, is the crowd favourite.

KB: Which is your favourite and which is the crowd favourite?

AV: My favourite is track two “Shut Em Down” and track three is everybody else’s favourite, “Red Slippers”.

I think people really enjoy the beat of “Red Slippers”, it’s really up-tempo. The chorus gets in your head, I’m saying something that’s a cliché line so you can sing along with it and you feel like you’ve already heard it before. Actually so is track two, the chorus is an old Public Enemy chorus. I just like track two because it’s a little more evil, less up-tempo and happy.

KB: Why is it evil? What is it about?

AV: At the time I wrote “Shut Em Down”, I was serving, so there’s a lot of allusions about serving people and having them boss me around and having to smile and take it.

It’s also a reference to me closing the restaurant every night. I try not to worry too much about staying on topic but have sort of a general theme that I stick with. I think that’s what I like about the song, I like the lyrics a lot and that the beat is dark and that it’s a simple baseline.

KB: Any collaboration you’d like to make happen?

AV: For hip hop I really like Cadence Weapon, I think he’s doing some really cool stuff. He’s almost not even hip hop anymore; he’s gone electro-pop with mc-ing on it.

For awhile I stopped rapping and picked up a guitar and thought I was a singer/songwriter. I realize that I’m good at the writing thing but I don’t think I was really good at the playing and singing thing. I really enjoy Joel Plaskett and I think that his writing and tunes are right up my alley. I would love to write a song for Joel Plaskett although his strength is writing so I don’t know why he would need me.

I’ve always done my own beats and I would really like to rhyme over a Just Blaze beat or rhyme over an original Neptune beat: that would be really cool. Or have Pharrell sing on a hook!

KB: So what’s the new album like?

AV: I set out to do something a lot more accessible. People would say, I really like track three, so I tried to hone in on what it was they liked about it and what I didn’t like about it. I think it’s that there’s a really accessible chorus and the beat is up-tempo and I thought, well why not make an album that has those elements but that I also really enjoy.

The lyrics are much less aggressive and cryptic. They’re much more accessible and the hooks are the focus of the songs. It’s really about having that sing-a-long feel. I’m happy with them.

KB: Do you have any shows coming up?

AV: I’ve had a few offers lately but I’ve put it all on hiatus because I’m changing focus with my music. I’ve put the shows on hold until I finish my new album.

KB: When can people expect the new album?

AV: I think by the end of the summer!

KB: Well it was good chatting with you! Thanks for the interview and good luck with the new album!

AV: Thanks so much, I appreciate it!

Just before seeing the awesome Vancouver show, I got to sit down and chat with Jason Stollsteimer of The Von Bondies. They have an interesting history to say the least and their excitement for what they do is apparent in everything they do, interviews, live shows, albums, etc. If they’re in your area, check them out. You’ll be impressed with how personable they are.

Killahbeez: How did the Von Bondies come to be? You guys used to be the Baby Killers?

Jason Stollsteimer: I listened to Minor Threat, Weezer, Sloan, random music. I wasn’t a huge music kid, I played sports when I was a kid; I was talked into that by certain members of my family. I played a lot of sports; I was never interested in music.

In 1998 I went to a concert were there were bands I had never heard of. My roommate at the time dragged me to the show and it was packed, 800 people, in Pontiac, an hour north of Detroit. The bands playing were the The Cramps and Guitar Wolf. I was watching this band from Japan that basically didn’t speak any English. During the show, the lead guitar player handed his guitar to some random person in the crowd and said “hit it!” and this guy hit the strings and it sounded just like the band, meaning, I could do that! If that guy can’t play guitar and the guitars are so loud that it doesn’t matter what you play, I could do that!

It looked like so much fun! That night I went back to my apartment and proceeded to get drunk with five of my friends and we started the Baby Killers that day. I had never played guitar, the drummer had never drummed, the singer had never sung, and I had never played bass. We were playing in the basement just making crap noise because none of us knew what we were doing.

Then, one by one each person went upstairs to get a drink but then didn’t come back down. In the end I was by myself which is ironic because I’m the only one left in the band. So I went upstairs and the lights were all off and when I turned them on I saw everyone was having non-sex sex, they were all making out in a big group. That was the first Baby Killers practise. That was the most rock ‘n’ roll thing and it started off that way. Three of those people weren’t in the band the next week.

KB: It was one of those things where being in a band seemed cool until they realized they had to work and actually practise.

JS: Yeah. They were the ones that were more into music than me but I was the only one that lasted. We changed our name to the Von Bondies when our drummer Don joined.

We started playing our first shows at house parties in a room that fit 50 people, but we would fit 100 in the room of this house I had in college.

We were pure energy with no talent. It was great. Now we have a little bit of talent and lots of energy still. We’re very self-deprecating. It’s very mid-west, that’s how it is where we live; everyone picks on themselves.

KB: So just to clarify, you had no interest in music when you were younger or you didn’t have an “interest” because you weren’t supposed to?

JS:All of my friends were musicians, I was the guy who carried their equipment and sold their band t-shirts. My brother was the musician in the family and he still is. He’s ten times the musician that I’ll ever be.

KB: Does he ever help you?

JS: In the ten years of the Von Bondies, he’s come up on stage once and it was great.

KB: What were your inspirations then? If you weren’t into music, you’re inspiration must have grown from somewhere, eventually some musician…

JS:No, I normally buy a cd every four or five years. I never buy music. I listen to talk radio consistently.

There are certain bands that I’ve seen live that inspire me but cd’s not at all. I still don’t own a Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin, Stooges, or MC5 record and those are the five things that people relate to rock’n’ roll. It’s not because I don’t like it. The rest of the band listens to music religiously. When I hear it on the radio, I’ll sing a long, but I’m not a huge music fan which is strange because of what I do.

I wanted to be a kindergarten teacher but somehow I ended up here. I love it, don’t get me wrong, but not for the same reasons your average musician does. Some people want fame, some people want to get laid, some people like partying and being the center of attention. I kind of got talked into doing this and then I liked it for totally different reasons.

KB: What is it about what you do that you love then?

JS:I like traveling and talking to people after the show. I like talking to the audiences which most shows I go to, nobody does that. Touring bands plays their songs and then says one cool line and that’s the show; they play the cd. There just getting through the night because they have 300 other nights to do. It’s a rip-off. I feel ripped-off if there is no connection between the band I’m watching and me in the audience. That might be the only show I go to that month. If I’m having a good show I talk to the audience for like 15 minutes over the course of an hour.

Tonight’s a Monday. Our job is to make people forget they have work tomorrow. That’s my main goal. Friday’s and Saturday’s are different shows because we know they don’t work the next day so we play more songs and talk less. I like to get them involved on the weekdays.

KB: Any musical collaboration you’d be interested in making happen sometime soon?

JS: I don’t think doing something with me would be good for anybody else. I don’t think I work in the normal way a song writer might work because I don’t have any background in music. Even in this band I end up playing all the bass and guitar parts on all the records, sometimes even the backing vocals. I don’t really collaborate that well. I didn’t know that I was supposed to; I didn’t know that’s how it worked. I had never done my homework on how you’re supposed to run a band. This was from day one, now looking back over the course of ten years, a solo project with my friends.

On the new record we don’t list anybody. I’m not even listed as a band member. Either you like the cd or you don’t. It doesn’t matter if Dave Grohl’s on drums (which he’s not); it’s about whether or not you like the music. So if you liked us because of the guest, that’s weird, because they weren’t involved musically.

People already know that I’m in the band so why should I put my name on the album saying Jason Stollsteimer, guitar and vocals.

KB: Are you guys writing while on the road or just touring and having fun?

JS: If I wasn’t doing sound checks, I would be up there by myself writing songs, just little riffs at a time.

I write better when I’m on tour, I don’t write at home at all. If you said, you have one day in the studio and you have to write ten songs, I would be able to do ten songs and one would be really good. I’m really good at being put on the spot. If you said you have six months to put out an album, that’s bad, don’t give me time.

“C’mon C’mon” was written in a day: it was written in less than five minutes, recorded, and edited. Same with the new record; “Pale Bride” took like five minutes to write. The songs that take the least amount of time are everyone’s favourites.

I have six new songs that are basically done.

My other band, Jason and the Hounds Below, is putting out a record this fall so I’ll tour on that for a little bit. It’s more like Roy Orbison meets Velvet Underground. It’s more crooner-esque, it’s not rock. I get to sing huge vibratos, my more natural voice. That’s what I grew up listening to, like Otis Redding.

KB: What’s the tour been like so far?

JS: Canada is hilarious. We had never been to Edmonton, Winnipeg, or Calgary and they were amazing.

In Edmonton, the venue was way over sold out. Everyone was dancing. I hadn’t had that much fun in like two or three years. Vancouver has a lot to live up to!

KB: Uh oh!

JS: No, no…Vancouver is normally really good but it is a Monday after all. Bands usually try to have Mondays off because they’re the least well attended. Tonight should be fun. We played at Richards last time.

KB: Yeah I like Richards. I like smaller venues. They’re more personal, better crowd, you see familiar faces.

JS: We’re noticing that our friends who used to do the 2000 seaters are now doing 500 seaters. All those bands are playing smaller venues because people aren’t going to shows, at all.

It’s good that you like small venues because the bigger venues aren’t going to be selling.

I try not to go to big stadium shows; festivals are different. There was a time when we were doing 2000 seaters in Europe and that was a low point for me personally on stage because it didn’t matter how sold out every show was, I couldn’t see anybody. There was forty feet between me and the first person in the audience.

KB: After this tour do you have a bit of a break before heading onto your other bands tour? Any other future plans?

JS: We’re doing Virgin Festival in Toronto. We’re doing a bunch of festivals after this tour and until October and then we’ll have two weeks off and that’s when I’ll record my other band.

I know that we’re going to try and get on Lollapalooza, Coachella, and some others.

This will be our six month straight touring. The reason why I did this big Canadian tour is because every tour could be our last. I’m having fun but who knows. Plus, we had a five year break between albums and we had no idea if anyone would remember us, especially in cities we’d never been to. It’s been reassuring!

KB: Enjoy it while you’re up there because you never know! Something could come up and you’ll kick yourself for not making the most of your last tour!

JS: Yeah, I am enjoying myself! I had a day off in Vancouver. I’ve never had a day off on purpose to go see a city.

KB: Well thanks for the chat. I had a great time and I look forward to seeing the show tonight! I’ll be up at the front taking as many photos as I can during the first three song limit!

JS: Oh yeah! We want photographers to take photos after the first three songs. We want to be sweaty. We hate it when the label only allows the first three songs. No one needs a photo pass. We feel lucky to have out photo taken. Flashes are fine, everything is fine. It takes us three songs to warm up. I don’t want us looking like Hollywood crap. The last song is the best to photograph because that’s when we’re jumping around! You want photos of the chaos!

KB: Wow amazing! Thanks so much. See you later!

JS: Enjoy the show!

Miles Aldridge, born in London in 1964, is a well known photographer that’s done editorial shoots for Vogue, Allure, as well as portraits, stills and advertising campaigns for various companies. I recently came across his portfolio and didn’t realize he shot a lot of the stuff that I recognized. Have a look below at a few of the shots below from his collection. Another cool fact I found out, is that his father is Alan Aldridge, an art director who designed album art for the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who to name a few.

Link: Miles Aldridge

It’s hard to believe that the White Album was released forty-one years ago in May of 1968. What I find most interesting about The Beatles is that after four decades, their legacy continues to inspire my generation.

My all time favorite song is “Imagine” by John Lennon. I recall hearing the song for the first time at the age of eight.  “Imagine” was featured as the soundtrack to The Killing Fields, a movie about the genocide that took place in Cambodia from 1975-79. From that moment on, I became a fan of Lennon’s philosophy and fell in love with the music that he made with his band members. As I grew up, I became more interested in listening to different genres of music, including old school rock albums by them and other bands.

If you’re not familiar with their music, I’m sure many of you have heard of DJ Danger Mouse’s remix of The Beatles’s White Album and Jay-Z’s Black Album, titled the Grey Album – it was brilliant!

I came across a leak of an unreleased song from the White Album. The writer of this blog provides an overview of the track, titled “Revolution 1 (Take 20)“. It was one of the first tracks recorded for the White Album. If you’re a fan of old school jams and The Beatles, I am sure that you’ll appreciate this, as it went on to inspire the song “Revolution 9″. The White Album will always remain a classic!

Photos/Source: Nevergetoutoftheboat, Amazon, Danger Mouse, The Beatle’s

Here’s the my brief re-cap of this years Grammy awards ceremony.

Performances:

• U2 kicks the show off with their newest single “Get On Your Boots” off of the new album No Line on the Horizon.
• Al Green, Keith Urban, Justin Timberlake and Boyz II Men perform together. Boyz II Men playing backup? WTF? Didn’t Boyz II Men release a Motown revival type record this year? Just sayin’ why have them do vocal backing when they did an album of these jams this year. Wack. I was actually watching the pre-Grammy show and it was reported that Chris Brown and Rihanna were no longer atttending, seems that Chris Breezy got himself into a little trouble the night before and is under investigation for an alleged assault. So to fill the time slot I believe this performance was slotted in place last second.
• Coldplay performed “Lost+”. Set starts off with Chris Martin at piano solo and later joined by Jay-Z to spit his verse. Chris cuts that song and goes to the stage and the rest of the band appears and they perform “Viva La Vida”.
• Carrie Underwood performs and to be quite honest I couldn’t hear a thing because all I could do was stare at her incredible legs. Straight up them shits was plain breathtaking.
• Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus perform together. Taylor Swift, clearly has talent. Miley on the other hand not so much. I pretty much thought she was horrible and is it me or does anybody else think she sounds like a man?
• Jonas Brothers perform with…Stevie Wonder??? WTF? This was probably the second worst performance of the night for me coming in right behind Miley.
• One of the performances of the night for me was “Swagger Like Us” with T.I., Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z and a very pregnant M.I.A. The performance started off with M.I.A. doing a verse of “Paper Planes”, the sample of which “Swagger Like Us” came from. When she hit the words “…swagger like us”, out appeared the four gentlemen above. M.I.A.’s outfit choice was really really weird, but I guess her style has alway been out there that and add to the fact that she was due to give birth that very day.
• Paul McCartney featuring Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters on the drums. Performing The Beatles “I Saw Her Standing There”, but Ringo Starr was not to be found on stage.
• Radiohead performance with the USC Trojans Marching band backing, probably one of the better performances of the night for sure.
• T.I. and Justin Timberlake perform “Dead and Gone”
• The Grammys honor and remember Motown legends The Four Tops, doing a medley of songs were Smokie Robinson, Ne-Yo, Jamie Foxx and remaining member of The Four Tops, Duke Fakir.

Awards:

• Jennifer Hudson wins Best R&B album of the year. Raphael Saadiq could’ve won this as well in my opinion, but she deserves it as well.
• Song of the year went to Coldplay for their song “Viva La Vida”.
• This was kind of a “WTF?” moment for me. Best Pop collaboration went to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Although the nominees for the category did seem a bit weak.
• Blink 182 members come out together to announce they’re coming back to do work as well as presenting the Best Rock album, which went to Coldplay.
• Best New Artist award went to Adele.
• In another “WTF?” moment, Record of the year went to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. On the real, it beat out some deep competition.
• Best Rap Album went to Lil Wayne for Tha Carter III.

One of my favorite moments was during the interview stage on the red carpet. Not sure how many of you caught the E! interviews, but there was a moment where they caught up with T-Pain and he more or less admitted how wack his rhymes are. That was pretty awesome.

See a complete list of winners on www.grammy.com, the actual TV airing didn’t show that many.

Image: Getty Images

Coming out next Tuesday, February the 3rd, is Jermaine Roger’s latest print, “Polluted Culture: Volume 2″.  Jermaine takes a collabo approach with two iconic pop culture bands, The Beatles and U2.  As seen on this print, the background borrows U2’s The Joshua Tree and replacing Bono and bang with the Fab Four.  The print measures in at 38″ x 20″ and is screen printed on gallery bond paper.  Whereas the release time has been confirmed at a window of 2 to 5 pm eastern, we still don’t know the price.  If this print piques any interests, join Jermaine’s email list.  On a side note, is it just me or does Paul McCartney resemble Xavier from Justice and Ringo looks a bit like Jesse F. Keeler from MSTRKRFT?

Image Source: OMG Posters! via Jermaine Rogers

Riding off of ateks’ previous post, here’s the Kanye West American Music Awards speech that everybody has been telling me to check out. The “I want to be Elivs” speech, which actually didn’t turn out corny but was very well put. My only question on the whole video is, what the fuck is Nickleback doing presenting the award???

Kanye West “Heartless”

Fourteen years in the making, it looks like Guns ‘N Roses’ long awaited Chinese Democracy is finally set to be released (without Shaq’s freestyle). Just to put this in perspective, it took the Beatles ten years to record and release their entire discography.

What does this mean? Well, either Chinese Democracy is going to be 14 times better than Rubber Soul or Axl Rose has been smoking way too much weed. Either way, let’s take a look at what else has happened since the braided one started work on this masterpiece.

14 Things That Have Happened Since Axl Started Recording Chinese Democracy

• Bill Clinton delivers his first State of the Union address

  

• The MP3 is introduced.
• The DVD is invented.
• The Internet as we know it (World Wide Web) is introduced.
• The first consumer-grade digital camera enters market.
• Dakota Fanning born.

  

• Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, is found dead.
• Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first Black president.
  
• Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside the Simpson home in Los Angeles, California.
• O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit.

  

• Motorola introduces the Motorola StarTAC Wearable Cellular Telephone, the world’s smallest and lightest mobile phone at that time.

  

• Biggie and Tupac shot.
• The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence.

  

• Apple Computer releases the first iBook.

Guns N’ Roses in talks for exclusive album release (Reuters)